For convenience, we'll build the RPM inside a CentOS 7 docker container.
docker run -dt --name centos7 centos:7 bash
docker exec -it centos7 bash
Since compiling can take a while and …
These are my notes on how I used FPM to build an RPM for Ruby 2.4.1.
yum -y install openssl-devel libffi-devel readline-devel gdbm-devel libyaml-devel \
tcl-devel tk-devel ruby ruby-devel gcc rpm-build gcc-c++ gmp-devel doxygen make \
systemtap-sdt-devel graphviz
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A long time ago, I wrote about installing Jruby 1.7.3 on FreeBSD 9.1. Recently I was looking to build a small Sinatra application on CentOS 6.x.
Here's my notes on how I got it done.
I used …
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Recently I was in a situation where I was asked to migrate a server to a different provider.
I figured this would be trivial so I started with the usual rsync in a screen copy. I checked a few hours later and rsync was frozen.
Further investigation revealed …
Recently I've been working on a project where we had a need to put together some shell scripts in a package to use in CentOS servers.
We could have easily tarred them up, but then updating a bunch of servers consistently whenever we had an upgrade would be a pain …
The easiest way I've found by far to install Ruby on CentOS is by using the Software Collections - here's a link for the Ruby 2.2 collection.
This is how I did it on CentOS 6.x:
yum install scl-utils -y
So I'm using Atlantic.net more and more and I figured it'd be nice to be able to access their API using Ruby.
At the moment they have Bash scripts to access their API (unfortunately the Bash scripts also have some Perl requirements) and a PHP example - so here's a …
This is mostly based on code samples from Stack Overflow which I didn't do a very good job of keeping track of the links.
All this has been tested on Jruby 1.7.16.1 which is compatible with Ruby 1.9.3 and can be tested in jirb
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